Jamie Murray was among the guests at a Buckingham Palace state banquet for Colombia president Juan Manuel Santos

The doubles king had already been to the royal house once to receive his OBE and then attended a state banquet for the president of Colombia, home country of his wife Alejandra.

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Asked what the food had been like, Murray said: “The thing was, you serve yourself. They bring it round and you take it off the plate and serve yourself.

“I just assumed it was, like, one piece for each person. You know, couples, like, they don’t sit next to each other.
“At the end of the meal, I went to my wife. I said: ‘I think I’m going to need to get some more food.’
“She says: ‘Why didn’t you take what you wanted?’
“The two guys she was sitting next to were, like, piling it in. They were a bit more experienced, I think, in these affairs.”

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Murray said: “Well, Prince Charles, he was, yeah. The Queen, I laughed because she said to the Colombian president, when I met him, she's like, ‘I've seen him play tennis before,’ which I thought was quite funny.”

Murray and Soares beat Max Mirnyi and Treat Huey 6-4 7-5 in their first match at the O2 after Murray rightly challenged the lack of call when their opponents’ shot went out.

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